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what’s the in-house opinion about spells and character options from Sword Coast Adventure’s Guide that weren’t put in Xanathar’s? Were they considered too specific, niche, or thematic with the setting or was it because of power issues or something else?We chose things from the SCAG to put in "Xanathar's Guide" that we wanted to make available for play in the entire D&D multiverse. Other things in SCAG we're happy to leave in the Forgotten Realms, for which they were designed.

So it doesn’t matter if a spell/effect is initiated by you before hidden step was activated? As long as you make a creature do a saving throw or attack or roll damage for any reason then hidden step ends? That’s correct.

@thuggibearWhat about chaos bolt? That has a new attack roll only targeting one target at a time, but can potentially effect more. Neither the feature nor the test I tweeted talks about attack rolls. Can the spell affect more than one creature? That's the question.

So I understand correctly, because the initial target of the spell can never change, it can be twinned? So since the Dragon's Breath spell only ever targets the one creature who I cast it on, it can be twinned and both recipients can use the effects?

That’s like saying haste has 2 sets of targets, the hastened person and everyone that they use their extra actions to attack, or that everyone that tries to hit a mage armored person is also a target. Neither of the spells you mentioned create an area of effect with its own targets. Dragon’s breath is exceptional.